The Gray Area with Sean Illing

The Gray Area with Sean Illing takes a philosophy-minded look at culture, technology, politics, and the world of ideas. Each week, we invite a guest to explore a question or topic that matters. From the the state of democracy, to the struggle with depression and anxiety, to the nature of identity in the digital age, each episode looks for nuance and honesty in the most important conversations of our time. New episodes drop every Monday.

Philosophy
Politics
News Commentary
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The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Tr...
73 min
602
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first...
58 min
603
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama
59 min
604
What life is like in North Korea
46 min
605
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Pau...
93 min
606
The case for impeachment
66 min
607
What Buddhism got right about the human brain
75 min
608
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and An...
86 min
609
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It...
61 min
610
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s m...
82 min
611
Why politics needs more conflict, not less
72 min
612
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope...
41 min
613
What happens when human beings take control of ...
61 min
614
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you
67 min
615
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump
105 min
616
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Par...
76 min
617
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era an...
82 min
618
What Hillary Clinton really thinks
54 min
619
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then c...
65 min
620
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-ri...
83 min
621
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to crim...
73 min
622
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed ...
64 min
623
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, so...
75 min
624
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but Ame...
62 min
625
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change y...
88 min